Assessing the welfare impacts of rural roads poses a number of problems, with implications for data collection and evaluation methods. The paper reports on a study being conducted to assess the impacts...
Routine "quick-and-dirty" methods of project appraisal can be so dirty in guiding project selection as to wipe out the net social gains from public investment, contend the authors, illustrating their point...
It is commonly assumed that the cost of living is much higher in cities than in the country because housing rents are higher in urban areas and food staples cost more. This assumption has important implications...